<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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She Came to Me: A Glass Onion of Melodrama

She Came to Me: A Glass Onion of Melodrama

Writer-director Rebecca Miller's She Came to Me finds melodrama at every angle, using its talented cast to paint thin portraits of people whose lives should be very simple and nice, but they simply aren't. Steven (Peter Dinklage) is considered a genius-level,...

TIFF ’23: Green Border

TIFF ’23: Green Border

In this harrowing contemporary humanist drama, auteur Agnieszka Holland becomes the second Polish film of TIFF to look at the banality of evil but shows us how it's happening in the present. Shot in a very draining black and white verite documentary style, Green...

TIFF 23′: Sing Sing

TIFF 23′: Sing Sing

A cleanly presented film, whose story will likely stir up both empathetic and artistic energies, Sing Sing sees the power of theatre come to life in what many consider the darkest havens of America. Sing Sing Correctional Facility boasts an arts rehabilitation program...

TIFF ’23: Expats

TIFF ’23: Expats

Confidently directed by Lulu Wang, her follow-up to The Farewell received much critical acclaim out of Sundance and finally should establish her as “going Hollywood”. Expats is a six-part miniseries based on the book Expatriates by Janine K Lee. TIFF invited Lulu to...

TIFF ’23: Hit Man

TIFF ’23: Hit Man

Richard Linklater never fails and, more amazingly, continues to surprise. Even as he traverses genres, he always nails the core relationships. At the same time, he understands that romantic love brings us together and makes us make the most absurd choices possible. A...

TIFF ’23: Rustin

TIFF ’23: Rustin

George C. Wolfe’s latest film, Rustin, shows that he finds scripts that give his generational talented actors the to shine. However, this one takes a step back in its originality and covers mostly familiar narrative and historical ground.  Rustin stars Colman Domingo...

TIFF ’23: The Peasants

TIFF ’23: The Peasants

In their follow-up to the first-ever film entirely animated in oil paintings, D.K Welchman and Hugh Welchman return to the style with a more unknown period piece. The Peasants takes a look at a 19th-century Polish farming village and, more specifically, a young woman...